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Calum Best

Calum Milan Best (born February 6, 1981) is an English-American television personality and entrepreneur. He is the only child of footballer George Best. He is also the chairman of the Dorking Wanderers women's team.

Best was born in San Jose, California, the son of parents: Angie Best (born MacDonald-Janes), an English model, and the Northern Irish footballer George Best. Through his mother, Best is a cousin of British actress and singer Samantha Womack (nee. Janus): Angie's brother Noel is Womack's father. He was raised in Los Angeles, where he became a model in his mid-teens.

Best is a patron of Nacoa (the National Association for Children of Alcoholics), a UK charity providing support to children affected by a parent's drinking. He moved to his parents' native United Kingdom when he was 21.

Best has taken part in the reality TV shows Fool Around With on E4 and The Match on Sky One. In 2005 and 2006, he was featured in ITV's Celebrity Love Island, winning the second series on August 28, 2006. Around this time he played himself in the final episode of ITV's Footballers' Wives. In September 2006, Best appeared in the ITV2 series Calum, Fran and Dangerous Danan, in which he was seen traveling with Paul Danan and Fran Cosgrave from Texas to Los Angeles on America's U.S. Route 66.

In late 2006, Best launched a men's fragrance called "Calum", made by Jigsaw ESL. Best also launched fragrances called "Best" and "Day and Night".[citation needed]

In 2008, Best appeared on RTÉ's Livin' with Lucy. Later that year, he featured in MTV's Totally Calum Best. The show detailed Best's attempts to remain celibate for fifty days.

In 2009, he appeared as a guest judge in the reality television show Paris Hilton's British Best Friend, in which he tested the contestants' flirting abilities. In November 2009, he presented the BBC TV Documentary Brought up By Booze: A Children in Need Special, which highlighted the plight of children brought up by alcoholic parents. Best drew upon his relationship with his own father in the making of the program, which the BBC described as a 'raw and often distressing journey'.

In 2010, Best appeared in Channel 4's Come Dine with Me, where he dined with Janice Dickinson, Samantha Fox and presenter Jeff Brazier.

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